Turning Point for Life

Chapter: Journey / A Turning Point


The Turning Point for Life in the center of the Friedensmal was inaugurated on May 14, 2017, in the framework of the Encounter Celebration between the Jewish Chabad congregation from Karlsruhe and locals.

Link:  10 minute film of the inauguration (in German)

Link: 
Press release (Focus local) about the inauguration


Lag baOmer 2017 - Walk into the Tree of Life

The guests on their way into the Tree of Life at the center of the Friedensmal (monument).




Mordeshai Mendelson and Eloas Lachenmayr

Guests, Rabbi Mordechai Mendelson and the German bard Eloas Lachenmayr.




Mordeshai Mendelson sets the Turning Point

The Rabbi placed the Turning Point at 2:00 p.m., the new center of the Blossom of Life with the inscription Chai“ (alive). He inaugurated the Turning Point and blesses this site with a reading of psalm 126. - Life is sacred. 'Recognize the Sacred Within and Around You' is the inscription on the entrance to the Friedensmal (monument).



Rainbow above the Garden of Freedom

Then, at 3 p.m., there was a heavy rain and then a full rainbow towards Jerusalem appeared on the horizon above the Friedensmal.




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The Inauguration

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